Rida Khan, AASW

Rida Khan is an AASW social worker with three years of professional experience supporting people through major life challenges. She works with clients from diverse cultural and migrant or refugee backgrounds, and welcomes discussions about how identity and context shape wellbeing. Rida speaks English, Hindi and Urdu and uses a person-centred style to help people feel heard and understood.

She focuses on practical help for anxiety, stress, trauma and abuse, grief, anger and coping with life changes. Rida also supports those dealing with body image concerns, caregiving strain, chronic health issues, and challenges linked to adoption or abandonment. Her practice includes attention to ageing and geriatric issues when these affect a person’s mental health and daily functioning.

Rida shares straightforward psychosocial techniques and adopts a decolonising, multicultural framework. Sessions aim to build on each person’s strengths and to identify small, workable steps for managing symptoms and everyday difficulties. She takes a power‑informed stance that treats the client as an equal partner in the work.

Her background includes trauma-informed work around religious abuse, radicalisation, war-related trauma and family violence. In therapy she combines practical coping skills with discussion of systemic or cultural pressures that affect wellbeing. The intent is to help people reduce distress and gain clearer choices for next steps.

Rida encourages people to consider therapy as part of personal resilience and social justice. She asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire so sessions can begin in line with their needs and circumstances.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Rida often uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping skills and trauma-informed care. One approach emphasises building coping strategies for anxiety and stress, teaching simple tools to manage overwhelming feelings and daily routines. Another strand concentrates on trauma-informed work, helping people understand how past harm affects current behaviour and relationships, and developing pacing and safety strategies for recovery.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history and preferences, then suggest techniques that seem most useful. Together they review what helps and adjust the approach if needed so the work stays relevant and manageable.

For practicalities, confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving or mobility needs, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when life is busy. It can also suit people who prefer not to be on camera or who need sessions that better match their daily routine. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt the work to suit each person's circumstances and goals.